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Automattic Design Stories 487

Automattic Design Stories 487

  • Demoing WordPress

    Recently a few of us set out to record demo videos for some of the new features set to arrive in the upcoming version of WordPress, version 5.9. In case it’s helpful to your team, here’s what we learned for this latest round of videos.

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    Elizabeth Pizzuti, L. Jeffrey Zeldman

    Automattic Women: Elizabeth Pizzuti

    Welcome to Automattic Women—conversations with some of the remarkable women working all over the world to design and develop Automattic software and make the web a better place. Today’s interviewee is designer Elizabeth Pizzuti. Who are you, and what do you do?  At Automattic, I’m the design lead working on improvements to the admin experience…

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    Michelle, L. Jeffrey Zeldman

    Automattic Women: Michelle Langston

    Welcome to Automattic Women—conversations with some of the remarkable women working all over the world to design and develop Automattic software and make the web a better place. Today’s interviewee is designer Michelle Langston.

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    Saygun Erkaraman

    Diversity in Ideation

    Designing your one-hour-long virtual meeting.

    Diversity in Ideation
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    Kjell Reigstad

    Theme & Pattern Design Snapshots

    A collection of recent work by Automattic’s Theme Design Squad.

    Theme & Pattern Design Snapshots
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    ollierozdarz

    WordPress.com Onboarding: Better Iteration Through Persistence, Collaboration, and Data Analysis

    How a year of experiments led to subtle changes with major impacts.

    WordPress.com Onboarding: Better Iteration Through Persistence, Collaboration, and Data Analysis
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    Seyward Darby

    Redesigning The Atavist Magazine

    The Atavist Magazine, one of Automattic’s flagship longform publications, recently relaunched on WordPress.com. In this conversation, editor in chief Seyward Darby and art director Ed Johnson talk about the history, (re)design, and future of the magazine.

    Redesigning The Atavist Magazine
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    Filipe Varela, Yvonne Doll

    Jetpack turns 10

    Go behind the scenes with the Jetpack Design team and see the process of how we crafted the 10th anniversary campaign.

    Jetpack turns 10
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    Monika Burman

    Designing for Culture and Community

    The Designer Experience team at Automattic is uniquely tasked with designing programs and experiences for designers. Learn about our culture and community-building programs.

    Designing for Culture and Community
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    Channing Ritter

    Accessibility in the Block Editor

    As a new addition to the design team at Automattic and a first-time contributor to the WordPress project, I’ve been spending a lot of time learning about accessibility features in Gutenberg, the WordPress block editor. I wanted to create this blog post to introduce myself (and you) to the many useful accessibility features available and…

    Accessibility in the Block Editor